At this point in the Real Housewives franchise, the bug-eyed women of New York have shed their pre-fame personalities and are basically D-list actors playing the roles the Bravo producers want them to play. New blood keeps the franchise humming along, and while I would gladly watch Ramona Singer press her breasts against the tanned sternums of New York City’s eligible Boomer bachelors, even that becomes boring after a while. Swapping Bethenny Frankel out for Leah McSweeney, though, has reinvigorated the franchise in a way I didn’t think possible.\n
franchise, the bug-eyed women of New York have shed their pre-fame personalities and are basically D-list actors playing the roles the Bravo producers want them to play. New blood keeps the franchise humming along, and while I would gladly watch Ramona Singer press her breasts against the tanned sternums of New York City’s eligible Boomer bachelors, even that becomes boring after a while.
While the other women are messy in ways that are now largely predictable and manufactured, McSweeney’s predilection for wilding out feels less scripted and more authentic, as evidenced by her antics at Ramona’s Hamptons getaway cottage—a harrowing 45 minutes of beautifully nasty reality TV that included nudity, the destruction of public property, and McSweeney, naked but for a thong, throwing lit tiki torches into the bushes, screaming, “These represent bad things!” This behavior would not seem...
It’s hardly revolutionary to say that a new person on an aging television program makes the show fun to watch again, but adding McSweeney and letting her rock proves that the franchise itself isn’t stale, but the women populating Bravo’s reality TV offerings are.
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